Human nature and the limits of science (Record no. 294070)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199248063
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 128
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Dupre, John
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245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Human nature and the limits of science
Statement of responsibility, etc. Dupre, John
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2001
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent x, 201 p. ; 21 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount UKP 30.00
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-196) and index
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. John Dupre warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. Not just in the academic world but in everyday life, we find one set of experts who seek to explain the ends at which humans aim in terms of evolutionary theory, while the other set uses economic models to give rules of how we act to achieve those ends. Dupre demonstrates that these theorists' explanations do not work and that, if taken seriously, their theories tend to have dangerous social and political consequences. For these reasons, it is important to resist scientism: an exaggerated conception of what science can be expected to do for us. Dupre restores sanity to the study of human nature by pointing the way to a proper understanding of humans in the societies that are our natural and necessary environments.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Human beings - Philosophy
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Science - Philosophy
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Genetic psychology
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Rational choice theory.
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